Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Debra Granick
Jason says: “You may have heard of director Debra Granik’s previous film, a great backwoods number called WINTER’S BONE that got a bunch of praise and is arguably the foundation for Jennifer Lawrence being as big a star as she
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sean McNamara
Starring: Carlos PenaVega | David del Rio | George Lopez | Jamie Lee Curtis | Jose Julian | Oscar Gutierrez
Jason says: “If I believed in guilty pleasures, I might count movies like SPARE PARTS among them, even though there’s not much worth feeling bad about where it’s concerned. Sure, it breaks almost no new ground at all, following its
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lázló Nemes
Starring: Balázs Farkas | Gergö Farkas | Géza Röhrig | Jerzy Walczak | Levente Molnár | Urs Rechn
Brett says: “Not another holocaust film. SON OF SAUL is a look from within a World War II concentration camp, or perhaps better described as a series of passing glances from within. Director Lázló Nemes provides the insight into militant
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kevin Derek
Jason says: “There have always been a fair number of documentaries like THE REAL MIYAGI, but I wonder if there are a lot more in the future. Equipment to shoot/record fairly well in 2K is readily available, if not quite
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Guan Hu
Jason says: “Although MR. SIX isn’t much different in substance to any number of ‘aging tough guy stands up to disrespectful young punks’ movies, it eases the audience into that story with a little more care than is typical, and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Brian Helgeland
Jason says: “One of my favorite ways to mess around during awards season and make the point that determining the winners is not nearly so important as shining a light on noteworthy achievements is finding a way to suggest nominating
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ifa Isfansyah
Jason says: “I talked to folks who passed on THE GOLDEN CANE WARRIOR because the martial arts looked unimpressive in the trailer, which I suspect may be kind of unfair; they were probably cut to ribbons, and even if I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Robbie Pickering
Jason says: “FREAKS OF NATURE was originally called ‘The Kitchen Sink’ – some websites are listing its show times under that title – and neither name is great. ‘Freaks’ is generic and not really what the movie is about; ‘Sink’
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Jason says: “You can tell from the title that this movie is going to be playing on horror movie tropes – the ‘final girl’ being the last survivor of a massacre who takes down the killer – but that’s often
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alex Garland
Kyle says: “When a robot referred to clinically as the A.I., or Ava (Alicia Vikander), tells Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) that her maker Nathan (Oscar Isaac) is ‘not your friend’ during a power outage, we expect him to pay close attention,
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